It scans better if you switch Hexham for Morecambe...
Limericks are meant to rhyme.
Posted 04 April 2020 - 18:08
It scans better if you switch Hexham for Morecambe...
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Posted 04 April 2020 - 18:58
Limericks are meant to rhyme.
In Britain and Ireland, we avoid obvious rhymes. We rhyme doff with cough, enough with stuff, and go with dough.
Posted 04 April 2020 - 19:12
Posted 04 April 2020 - 19:18
In Britain and Ireland, we avoid obvious rhymes. We rhyme doff with cough, enough with stuff, and go with dough.
Not sure which limericks you've been reading, but Edward Lear would beg to differ ...
http://www.nonsensel...r/MN/mn010.html
Even clerihews rhyme.
http://www.verse.org...a-clerihew.html
Posted 04 April 2020 - 19:24
There once was a young girl from Wrexham
Who went on the train to Hexham.
She was known as a flirt
Too short was her skirt,
So people could see she'd no kecks on.
Do you think Edward Lear would approve of that one Vitesse?
Posted 04 April 2020 - 19:29
I think we should return to the truth and nothing but the truth. This is what happened:
There were two young ladies from Wrexham
Whose techie bits tended to vex ’em
A charger turned red
And set fire to the bed
Which, as we know, always wrecks ’em
Posted 04 April 2020 - 19:55
Not sure which limericks you've been reading, but Edward Lear would beg to differ ...
http://www.nonsensel...r/MN/mn010.html
Lear brings back the end of the first line to the end of the fifth -- for the benefit of children to join in. Pub limericks are more bawdy, as Sterzo admirably demonstrates in post 156.
Posted 04 April 2020 - 20:01
Worth a thought. Clerihews about famous racing figures and teams?
Posted 04 April 2020 - 21:39
But then the young man from Hexham
Entertained the young lady from Wrexham.
The power of his body -
It wasn't too shoddy -
Left her smiling as he would flex 'em.
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Posted 04 April 2020 - 21:53
It seems like a century ago, but on the 'what are you doing this winter ?' thread before Christtmas I said I'd be working my way through my collection of Motor Sports 1959-1974. These are now providing some excellent browsing as well as deeper reading - even the adverts are fascinating. And I don't have that 'Am I wasting time ?' feeling......
Posted 04 April 2020 - 22:06
One man's meat's
another man's poison
My favourite car's
an Avions Voisin
(LJKS I believe...)
DCN
Posted 05 April 2020 - 08:16
One man's meat's
another man's poison
My favourite car's
an Avions Voisin
(LJKS I believe...)
DCN
And there I was believing that LJKS was more an admirer of Bristols (fnaar, fnaar ...)
For those not familiar with rhyming slang, Urban Dictionary is your friend.
Posted 05 April 2020 - 09:27
And there I was believing that LJKS was more an admirer of Bristols (fnaar, fnaar ...)
For those not familiar with rhyming slang, Urban Dictionary is your friend.
I've just checked, Avions Voisin isn't in there.
Posted 05 April 2020 - 21:31
One man's meat's
another man's poison
My favourite car's
an Avions Voisin
(LJKS I believe...)
DCN
I think that was a VSCC verse, but I can't remember whose and can't find the evidence. I can't think LJKS would rhyme poison and Voisin
Posted 05 April 2020 - 21:54
I would recommend sim racing, particularly using Assetto Corsa.
It possible to use this sim to drive virtually any classic you car think of around Goodwood. I greatly enjoy sliding a Maserati 250F and Jaguar Mk 2.
Tracks available that have passed into history in include Montjuic Park, Crystal Palace, Solitude, Reims, Rouen, Bridgehampton and even the Targa Florio!
Edited by R Peck, 05 April 2020 - 21:55.
Posted 07 April 2020 - 22:09
Is anybody else using Zoom or similar to hold virtual TNF meetings? Barry Boor Tony Pashley (2F-001) and I spent an enjoyable hour today chatting about our recent experiences and the past and future of motorsport. We plan a repeat next Tuesday and would welcome anybody who wishes to join us though I think 9-10 participants is a practical maximum.
zoom is a video conferencing service; it’s multi-platform so you can use desktop, tablet or phone. There are apps for iOS and Android. It’s free though there is a premium, paid-for version Their website says that meetings on the free version are limited to 45 minutes but we talked today for over an hour.
Let me know if you’d like to join us next week and let others know of your experiences.
Posted 07 April 2020 - 22:43
In Britain and Ireland, we avoid obvious rhymes. We rhyme doff with cough, enough with stuff, and go with dough.
With the various accents from that very small part of the world it is probably fine with some but grating in others.
Posted 07 April 2020 - 23:49
Originally posted by Roger Clark
Is anybody else using Zoom or similar to hold virtual TNF meetings? Barry Boor Tony Pashley (2F-001) and I spent an enjoyable hour today chatting about our recent experiences and the past and future of motorsport. We plan a repeat next Tuesday and would welcome anybody who wishes to join us though I think 9-10 participants is a practical maximum.
zoom is a video conferencing service; it’s multi-platform so you can use desktop, tablet or phone. There are apps for iOS and Android. It’s free though there is a premium, paid-for version Their website says that meetings on the free version are limited to 45 minutes but we talked today for over an hour.
Let me know if you’d like to join us next week and let others know of your experiences.
Posted 08 April 2020 - 08:31
We plan to meet at 5pm uk time which I think is about 2am for you.
Posted 08 April 2020 - 09:44
I don't know whether that's a bit early or a bit late...
See how we get on. If somebody e.mails me the details I'll see if I can set up for it. Maybe at some other time we can do it as well, mid-morning your time, for instance?
I tend to agree, more than eight or so would become a handful if there's no 'chairman'.
Posted 08 April 2020 - 22:04
I've used Zoom a few times recently - mainly to keep in touch with those I'd normally meet in the pub. Perhaps because of my rather rural broadband, the sound does drop out quit often, even with only 5 or 6 participants, though it does seem to help if those not actually speaking mute their microphone.
So, a muted hurray for technology in the strange times.
Posted 14 April 2020 - 16:23
Posted 15 April 2020 - 01:54
Zoom no use for me. Old upright PC, Windows 7, no camera, no mike. And simple mobile phone used only for occasional texting and emergency calls, not connected to the web.
Posted 15 April 2020 - 08:07
Zoom no use for me. Old upright PC, Windows 7, no camera, no mike. And simple mobile phone used only for occasional texting and emergency calls, not connected to the web.
Glad I'm not the only one !
Posted 15 April 2020 - 08:17
Zoom no use for me. Old upright PC, Windows 7, no camera, no mike. And simple mobile phone used only for occasional texting and emergency calls, not connected to the web.
Glad I'm not the only one !
Posted 15 April 2020 - 08:45
No, you are not. I still have Windows XP and an old Nokia that has no camera. And I am perfectly happy.
What is zoom anyway?
Posted 15 April 2020 - 09:03
It's also the latest place to view (unwanted) pornography.
Posted 15 April 2020 - 09:05
Rob, I obviously live a simpler, more innocent, ice-cream based life than you.
Posted 15 April 2020 - 09:35
Barry Boor, Gary Critcher, Tony Pashley, Ray Bell (at 2am!) and I enjoyed a chat yesterday mainly, but not solely, about motor sport. Zoom restricts you to 40 minutes unless you pay but there’s nothing to stop you starting another meeting immediately. No pornography unfortunately.
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Posted 15 April 2020 - 10:01
But I met Barry's lady love before you joined in, Roger...
Yet another aspect to it.
The most unfortunate thing, in my opinion, about Zoom is that it's known as an 'app'. I really think it's a program, but the other meaningless word is applied to it. It links people who are invited to a 'meeting' with someone who has set up their identity on that program, so you might have six or eight people (in the kind of setting we had this morning) piping up with whatever they want to say to, or ask of, the others in the group. The parties are all visible to you, they can show you things and it all happens in real time.
What I did yesterday was e.mail a photo to the boys who would be there in the hope we might include a decent discussion about it. We didn't really get that far, but I'm sure we all enjoyed the forty minutes.
Posted 15 April 2020 - 10:28
Zoom is a hacker's paradise, I won't use it - Not that anybody cares.
Posted 15 April 2020 - 12:12
The most unfortunate thing, in my opinion, about Zoom is that it's known as an 'app'. I really think it's a program, but the other meaningless word is applied to it.
We used to program computers and the coding was known as a program (US spelling) but at some time it became the norm to call the coding an "Application" - presumably because one would say a computer could be applied to all sorts of things.
The modern young folk don't use four or five syllable words so they go to "uni" and exchange (or write) "apps"
Posted 15 April 2020 - 12:43
The shift from 'program' to 'app' was pretty much driven by Apple, after they introduced the iPhone. Subliminal advertising and all that. From an Australian point of view, Ray, aren't you glad Mr Jobs didn't name his company Pomegranate?
Posted 15 April 2020 - 12:56
Barry Boor, Gary Critcher, Tony Pashley, Ray Bell (at 2am!) and I enjoyed a chat yesterday mainly, but not solely, about motor sport. Zoom restricts you to 40 minutes unless you pay but there’s nothing to stop you starting another meeting immediately. No pornography unfortunately.
Two or three times my wife's been on Zoom with her pals and they got a free extension (in a non-pornographic sense) of fifteen minutes or so.
Posted 15 April 2020 - 13:17
What is zoom anyway?
Some of us ( me included ) are starting to sound a bit like the classic Rowan Atkinson sketch...
Posted 15 April 2020 - 14:44
Originally posted by Bloggsworth
Zoom is a hacker's paradise, I won't use it - Not that anybody cares.
Posted 15 April 2020 - 16:22
Some of us ( me included ) are starting to sound a bit like the classic Rowan Atkinson sketch...
Guilty as charged m´lud.
Posted 29 May 2020 - 16:25
Blowing the dust off this dormant thread, this is what I've been doing today. Not much, actually, but have been reading David Venables' wonderful book, "The Racing Fifteen Hundreds." It prompted me to dig out one of my battered old slot cars (more blowing of dust). The model itself must be early seventies, as the bonnet was made from a piece of metal toothpaste tube. A model should, of course, represent a particular car and driver at a particular race, but this doesn't - it's how my ERA would look if I raced one in VSCC.
Posted 29 May 2020 - 17:13
I like it.....great book. I've also been blowing the dust off - literally. Been up to the loft and rediscovered my small collection of 1/18 scale Minichamps Senna McLarens. Probably eight or ten years since they saw the light of day and very nice they look, too. Needless to say, I'm now immersed in some of my old Senna books.....
Posted 26 November 2020 - 14:37
Thought it might be appropriate to kickstart this thread, owing to the autumn/winter lockdown starting in most of Europe.
Leicester where I live has been in the most restrictive UK conditions for 255 days, so no trips out as a spectator for me. I've used the opportunity to read a bit deeper into topics which interest me and for which I have to make the fewest new purchases, so a lot of time recently thinking about the 1930s. The benefits of rack and pinion steering or hydraulic brakes can't be underestimated...
Posted 26 November 2020 - 18:25
Crikey -and I have had two very enjoyable trips to your local track - VSCC in August and CSCC in November. As well as two trips each to Oulton , Cadwell and Donington. All very well run too . Safer than going to Tescos
Posted 26 November 2020 - 19:35
During the main "lockdown" in England I took lots of walks in local countryside.....shooting 7 different film formats on 17 different film cameras - 35mm, 120, polaroid 600, Polaroid pack, std 8mm cine, super 8mm cine, quarter plate. I was working from home and able to go out in the middle of the day and take lovely walks. I discovered a local nature trail which I knew existed but isn't on Google maps, found a field full of horses which I befriended during the times when I wasn't supposed to meet people.
This time around I am working and the weather is not conducive to walking in fields. Though I have no doubts I'll do so when it's frosty rather than boggy. I think I shall have a go at organising three large boxes of negatives, and possibly scanning cine film I shot in the 80s.
Last lockdown I rewatched The Prisoner and finally watched the final series of Babylon 5 having not done so when it was current Over Christmas I may dig into my vast collection of F1 grands prix on video tape (remember that?).
I hate Zoom and other video chat. The social groups I usually frequent are all having "virtual nights out" and video meets....I tried one and it came close to traumatising me to be honest. My septuagenarian mother, however, can use zoom. I've got all the requisite equipment but would rather use it for other purposes such as editing video or accessing online forums.
Edited by absinthedude, 26 November 2020 - 19:39.
Posted 26 November 2020 - 19:38
VSCC at Mallory Park is one of the best places to introduce people to motor sport. Somehow the environment is less prissy and people are more open.
Posted 26 November 2020 - 23:18
Thought it might be appropriate to kickstart this thread, owing to the autumn/winter lockdown starting in most of Europe.
Leicester where I live has been in the most restrictive UK conditions for 255 days, so no trips out as a spectator for me. I've used the opportunity to read a bit deeper into topics which interest me and for which I have to make the fewest new purchases, so a lot of time recently thinking about the 1930s. The benefits of rack and pinion steering or hydraulic brakes can't be underestimated...
I've been working all the way through since and including March 23rd. It's now got to the stage, where if I could afford it, I'd happily go on furlough and take winter walks, read books, watch films and properly write book two and three (and more). Once lockdown finishes on the 2nd, I'll be flat out again.
But I realise how immensely lucky I am to be in 1) a job and 2) not be furloughed and employed throughout. But it is taking me a looooooooooong time to read the Lyons Shadow book, let alone start the next book to read on my increasing pile.
Posted 27 November 2020 - 16:54
...as for me, I've bought an old Tamiya 1/12 Lotus 72D kit ( which I never did get around to buying in the mid-70s ). Don't worry - I shan't be dribbling modelling glue over the signed, slipcased Michael Oliver 72 book which I also found on e-bay earlier this year.